"What Madness Is This?" Volume II: Prophecies in the Dark
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That was a great chapter. It had everything. Cults, serial killers, terrible cops, good cops, and everything else for a good crime novel.
Nixon sleeping with Oswald’s wife should be less of a surprise. Even WMIT Nixon is better the Oswald. Hopefully, he won’t get hanged from a tree.
Nixon sleeping with Oswald’s wife should be less of a surprise. Even WMIT Nixon is better the Oswald. Hopefully, he won’t get hanged from a tree.
Watching the investigation reminds me of the OTL USSR. "There are no criminals in our society Comrade. Capitalism causes crime."
Tricky Dick and Reinhard Heydrich being the slightly less crazy and evil option simply because they're at least a big pragmatic has to be the most screwed-up shit in the multiverse.
Also, let me keep track:
--Heydrich and Nixon know that JFK killed Stalin's son, but not that it was on Stalin's orders.
--Gerald Ford is almost halfway decent and competent, for a racist fascist raised in the legally distinct from Hitler Youth.
--Stalin's daughter Jackie Kennedy is cheating on JFK with Tricky Dick.
--JFK is about to be named supreme leader and Heydrich and Nixon know (or "know") that he's fucking nuts and a danger to everyone around him.
This is freaking bonkers.
Also, let me keep track:
--Heydrich and Nixon know that JFK killed Stalin's son, but not that it was on Stalin's orders.
--Gerald Ford is almost halfway decent and competent, for a racist fascist raised in the legally distinct from Hitler Youth.
--Stalin's daughter Jackie Kennedy is cheating on JFK with Tricky Dick.
--JFK is about to be named supreme leader and Heydrich and Nixon know (or "know") that he's fucking nuts and a danger to everyone around him.
This is freaking bonkers.
You just realized this? Now? This whole world has been freaking bonkers, that is the point.
Sounds like Chuck must have done something to get involved in this whole case.
The Reaper will probably be the most infamous serial killer in the RU for awhile but I imagine at some point we’ll get “The Cannibal”(a serial killer that eats people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Hannibal Lecter, and Learherface), and the Clown(some John Wayne Gacy type that lures children to kill them with nods to IT and M and others).
We had a Charles Manson expy who was a self-proclaimed necromancer. It would fit perfectly with the eternal 70s vibe if we had a bunch of weird serial killers running around. Maybe a Zodiac reference somewhere?
And Chuck may be a Worm Cultist as well, his association with Wheeler and his reaction afterward was rather suspicious. I’m guessing that’s why Nixon and Hendricks are looking into what happened to Steele’s son.
Yeah, that's the problem with telling people that all their problems come from the outside.
That's awful. I suppose that is normal ITTL.
Better sense than his OTL counterpart!
A surprisingly reasonable reaction, all things considered.
Couldn't this cause some publicity problems for Oswald though?
Why? Does he find the action disturbing or the possibility that Chuck might do it to him?
And here we all thought Mr. Oswald would cheat first. Maybe Steele won't be so angry when he meets Oswald in Purgatory this way? Considering...
Oswald will crush Nixon and Wyetta will say "Screw it I'm sticking with dames."
There is a reason Nixon is collecting all this *sensitive* information, it's called insurance. Plus Wyetta could also to play both sides of the field so to speak.
He has to be dead certain on everything before he would act on anything. He knows everyone involved is a psychopath teetering on the edge of total insanity.
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I think the latter. He's perfectly fine with killing people who get in the way, or at least crushing them. He did lead Operation Tinseldown, after all.